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50% of all Steam users in February were Chinese-speaking


Chinese-speaking users accounted for 50 percent of Steam's playerbase last month.

Valve has released its latest Steam Hardware and Software Survey, which revealed a 20.88 percent increase in Simplified Chinese-speaking users in February 2025, making up half of the entire userbase. Mecha BREAK - Global Storm Open Beta Trailer Watch on YouTube English-speaking users are the next highest, accounting for an almost 24 percent proportion of the userbase. Then there's the likes of the PlayStation-published Chinese action game Lost Soul Aside, as well as another Chinese action game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers(not to be confused with Wukong), while the free-to-play FragPunk follows Marvel Rivals as NetEase's next big shooter.

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